“You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.” Yogi Berra “link to article”:http://www.nola.com/timespic/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-10/120340217945380.xml&coll=1 Outlining the changes for City Council members, Nagin aides said a key feature of their plan is a computerized tracking system, which will record each step in an effort to eliminate […]
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Code Enforcement
There will be a presentation of the Code enforcement program Let’s hope they include HANO and City owned properties CITY OF NEW ORLEANS COUNCIL RESEARCH DIVISION INTEROFFICE MEMORANDUM February 13, 2008 TO: Councilmember Stacy S. Head, Co-Chairperson, District “B” Councilmember Cynthia Willard-Lewis, Co-Chairperson, District “E” Councilmember-At-Large Jacquelyn Brechtel Clarkson Councilmember James Carter, District “C” FROM: […]
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Worlds Apart Next Door
I have been documenting houses for over 2 years, the initial landscapes of destruction were omnipresent and painful, as time passed the human element became erased, partially because they had been hauled off and also because what was left took on a sameness of tone and color. Yesterday when I saw these 2 houses side […]
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HCDRC Feb 11 2008
Housing Conservation District Review Committee February 11, 2008 7th floor Safety and Permits OR 8th Floor Homeland Security New Business: “2237 N. Prieur St”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/2237.North.Prieur.Street 9201 Airline Hwy. “3615 Tulane Ave.”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/3615.Tulane.Avenue “2809-11 New Orleans St.”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/2809.New.Orleans.Street 2420 Bartholomew St. 2305 Painters St. 100 Chalfant Pl. 2855 Law Street 3615 Jana Street “9309 Belfast St.”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/9309.Belfast.Street “8017 Forshey St”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/8017.Forshey.Street […]
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NPR
Eve Troeh, from National Public Radio interviewed us last year and has done a remarkable job with this project “Finding Solid Ground”:http://www.findingsolidground.org/ Diane Baker whose home is pictured above is interviewed in the first part. Yesterday the Times Picayune published a report on the “Good Neighbor Program/Farce”:http://www.nola.com/timespic/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-10/1202019666247260.xml&coll=1
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Conti
With all the different lists and acronyms and phases of demolitions we spend a lot of time visiting, and revisiting houses. In the work we have done we sometimes come in contact with people who need help. One of those people was Miss Dolores. She was living alone in a FEMA trailer and had just […]
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Message from the Neighbors surround the VA Hospital Proposal
Community Meeting Thursday Jan 31st 6:30 pm St. Joseph Church Rebuild Center – 803 Gravier St (behind chuch) Come and discuss the NEPA Draft Environmental Assessment for the VA Come and discuss your concerns about the project. Tell us what you want to see for the surrounding areas? What are you worried about? Design? Traffic? […]
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Monday Jan 28 2008
“link to Editorial”:http://tinyurl.com/35vlbc
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HCDRC City Initiated Agenda
“link to Google map”:http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&ll=29.961776,-90.073299&spn=0.079565,0.170803&z=13&om=0&msid=105646371802170237687.000444b4ee5c29027fb42 Monday, January 28th, 2008 at 10:00 am City Hall 7th Floor Safety and Permits “Click here to see the Voluntary demolitions”:http://www.squanderedheritage.com/2008/01/22/hcdrc-voluntary-agenda/ City Demolitions Deferred from December 31st: IHT “3611 4TH ST”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/3611.4th.Street IHT “8639 COLAPISSA ST”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/8639.Colapissa.Street IHT “2821 EAGLE ST”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/2821.Eagle.Street IHT “2708-10 S DERBIGNY ST.”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/2708.S.Derbigny.Street New Business VOL “2812-14 N ROCHEBLAVE ST”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/2812.North.Rocheblave.Street […]
